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Vision To serve as a leading global institution in higher learning and research in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Management. Mission To strive towards excellence in higher education and research in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Management and to be one of the principal sources of the professional workforce in the area, for strengthening the Indian Pharma industry in obtaining quality products at affordable prices. Objectives Enhancement of creativity and motivation that drives the students towards inculcating professionalism. To set up an environment congenial for synergizing Academics, R & D, Technology and Industry, through training and exposure. To set up a collaboration between Pharmacy, Biotechnology, and Information Technology, which can help meet global challenges. Create a world-class institute of teaching and research in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences Develop and practice e-learning for professionals and training for teachers, researchers, and regulators in the respective fields. Expand research activities in new avenues and emerging segments. Explore national and international collaboration in Pharmaceutical Sciences. View full university

Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University was founded in 1939 as the Tohoku School of Pharmacy, the only pharmaceutical education institution in the Tohoku and Hokkaido area. Ever since, our university has consistently offered educational programs that enable pharmacy graduates to contribute to society successfully. The Department of Pharmaceutical Life Sciences aims to train students to acquire a broad knowledge of pharmaceutical sciences and medicine to make a valuable contribution to society, and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences nurtures competent pharmacists with a higher level of professional skills. Department of Medicine aims to cultivate doctors that can acquire advanced expertise and skill to contribute to the Tohoku region's healthcare with enthusiasm. When establishing the university, the founders primarily aimed to train students to be pharmacists who could contribute to the local community. However, one of their larger aims was to contribute to human beings' health and welfare through the education and research of pharmaceutical sciences and desired to push forward with the pursuit of truth. This spirit was condensed into Giichi Takayanagi' s appeal to "The pursuit of truth," engraved into a monument as the founding spirit of the former Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, and are guiding us even now as Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University started with the establishment of a new department of medicine. The pursuit of truth is the starting point of a university's mission to educate and research. This spirit requires us to make serious efforts for education and research activities in medicine and pharmaceutical sciences. Based on its keystone principle of the search for truth in nature and human society, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University has emphasized teaching a higher level of specialized knowledge and skills of pharmaceutical sciences and medicine. They deal with human life, require a broad outlook, and well-rounded humanity. Based on the founding spirit of "The Pursuit of Truth," and hoping to contribute to human beings' health and welfare through education and research in pharmaceutical sciences and medicine. Search for truth, discover problems, and solve them based on a broad perspective Have a warm heart and a high sense of ethics as individuals dealing with human life and health, and who also possess high-level professional knowledge and skills, and contribute to society Nurture friendship, shape personality, understand different cultures, and act from an international perspective in their interactions with others. View full university

Today's Showa Pharmaceutical University (SPU) was preceded by the Showa Women's Pharmaceutical Junior College, founded in 1930 by a group of students from a women's pharmacy school who overcame several hardships and won the backing of faculty and a benefactor to have the status of their old school raised to that of a pharmaceutical junior college. With students at the core of its establishment and no real "owners," the school's development has always been supported through the joint efforts of faculty, students, parents, and alumni. Fostered by this school history, faculty and students enjoy a very close relationship at SPU, where it is tradition to have a family-like atmosphere. Pharmacists' authority and responsibilities have increased as the separation of dispensaries from medical practice have made further progress in Japan in recent years, resulting in the need for well-qualified pharmacists who can contribute to team medicine in medical care settings. Starting in fiscal 2006, SPU adopted a six-year educational system. The entire university is committed to nurturing pharmacists who combine a high level of expertise in pharmaceutical products with a definite sense of ethics and a deep sensitivity for empathizing with patients. In particular, one of the major distinguishing characteristics of SPU is the ability of all of its students to receive an education in advanced clinical pharmacy while undertaking in-service training as part of medical teams at leading university hospitals thanks to a partnership with St. Marianna University School of Medicine, which has three university hospitals and one affiliated hospital in neighboring KanagawaPrefecture. With a 76-year history since its establishment, SPU takes pride in its tradition as a distinguished pharmaceutical university, in its nationally recognized facilities, its highly enthusiastic instructional staff, as well as its verdant campus ground. Backed by these assets, SPU has developed a structure for living up to the expectations of young people who aspire to enter pharmacology and fully meet society's demands. SPU aims to be an open university that moves forward together with the community in line with the school's mission to be a locally-rooted educational institution. SPU will pursue the ideal form for a 21st-century university through various opportunities for interaction with residents, including opening university facilities to the public and holding open symposia. As part of its effort to promote lifelong education, SPU, together with the Shoyaku Alumni Association, sponsors open courses authorized by the Japan Pharmacists Education Center. Pharmacists who take the courses receive credits for pharmacist certification from the Center. View full university

Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences carries on medicine and pharmaceutical sciences' aspirations to new generations through education, hoping to create a more enriched future. The university is committed to developing "humane and compassionate pharmacists" who meet social expectations and "highly creative researchers" with a global perspective. Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences focuses on creating knowledge through its enterprising spirit and, as a community-based university, contributing to building a fulfilled and healthy society through healthcare services. To prepare pharmacists who can contribute to promoting advanced healthcare and community healthcare as professionals. To prepare specialists who can contribute to research and development in drug discovery, government pharmaceutical administration, and environmental issues. Promote research in pharmaceutical sciences and develop educators and researchers in pharmaceutical sciences. The open ceiling library provides students and staff with wide-open spaces. The library, housing approximately 92,000 Japanese and Western books, approximately 650 Japanese and Western scientific magazines, and approximately 2,000 AV materials, supplies a wide range of information in various fields. Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences collects archival materials recording the university's history and the students learning there in various periods, explaining the progress of education of pharmaceutical sciences, and exhibits them in the Exhibition Room. The university collects AV materials in the fields of pharmaceutical sciences and medicine and those of famous paintings. Students can view them in the AV room on the fourth floor. Many students undergo practical training in this large-scale laboratory. The spacious laboratory extends far back but has a layout with a good view. The Career Support Room provides a rich store of data supporting job searches for students. Here, they can collect the necessary information and receive appropriate advice. A sophisticated space is created at the entrance featuring the pilotis, which allows sunlight to penetrate and wind to blow in. Students gather there to chat. There are a large variety of lecture rooms, including sizeable -, medium- and small-scale rooms. Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences can deliver its educational programs to other universities and receive those of other universities using the remote education system. Training of dispensing in the aseptic preparation room. Students can learn practical dispensing in the latest facility. Before starting practical training, students acquire the techniques of aseptic preparation of injections here. General Preparation Room. General preparations such as capsules, powders, ointments, suppositories, and liquids are prepared in this room. Students learn the flow of preparation procedures and acquire the skills of operating devices and handling tools. Computer learning room. Students handle various types of information and receive 3D education. They learn how to handle drug information and audit prescriptions and various operations through computer-based training. Students can use carrels to study alone when they do not have classes. They prepare for/review classes and write reports/theses in an environment with good Internet access. Students enjoy their club/circle activities and school events to the full while studying pharmacy, aiming toward their future goals. Another great pleasure on the campus is meeting lifetime friends, with whom youths can inspire each other. Students at Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences actively participate in studies and afterschool activities, thereby leading a fulfilling life. View full university

Meij Pharmaceutical university has a long history and tradition over 100 years since Shigenobu Onda founded it in 1902. Our University has produced competent and distinguished experts with leadership skills in a wide range of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. We have offered excellent faculty, and distinctive curriculum, and state-of-the-art educational facilities as well. The faculty includes several alumni who work with students very closely and provide a great deal of support. We wish our students to study and spend their college life in our beautiful, spacious campus located in Tokyo's suburb, which brings a quiet and relaxing atmosphere. Newly graduates of our University have maintained a highly successful rate in the National Exam for Pharmacists. With a consistently high job placement rate, our University is high in the ranks of the top pharmaceutical schools in Japan. The library is equipped with 264 seats and provides open-shelf services where all users can browse freely. Current holdings include 140,000 books, 114 domestic and 139 overseas scientific journals. An audiovisual room and a group study room are equipped within the library so that students can use them for those purposes. The library provides 3 PCs exclusively for searching data, 6 PCs in the audiovisual room, and 20 PCs in a self-study room located on the second floor. Wireless local area network(Wireless LAN)is also provided and enables students' laptops in the library. The center for Instrumental analysis was founded in April 1971 for "contributions to the process of educational research of Meiji Pharmaceutical University with doing the administration, management of the joint-use Instruments for educational research." Facilities: It is located on the first floor of the research ridges and the fourth floor. The floorage is about 790 m2. Instruments: FT NMR spectrometer (270, 300, 400, 500 MHz), GC mass spectrometer, elemental analyzer, protein sequencer, amino acid analyzer. The Computer Assisted Learning Laboratory room (CALL Room) houses 70 computers connected to the university LAN. The room is also equipped with Language Lab devices such as audio and video cassette recorders/players, laser disk player, etc. From the server computer, teachers can control each computer in this room, monitoring the work being done by individual students or operating the student computers by remote control. The University provides more practical education in classes or seminars for information processing practice, foreign languages (English and German), medicinal drug-related information, statistics, etc., by making full use of specialist software, the Internet, and a VOD (video on demand) system. There are various plants, including original plants of herbal medicine listed in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, that have been planted and displayed in the Medicinal Plant Garden. The primary educational purpose of the Garden is to have students learn the history of pharmaceutical sciences through lectures and hands-on practice. Meanwhile, medicinal plants and herbal medicine are deeply ingrained within our daily life, especially the recent popularity of healthy living has boosted the interests of Kampo(Japanese herbal medicine) or medicinal plants, from the viewpoint of self-medication and preventive medicine. We open the Garden to the public to promote the spread of knowledge about traditional medicine. Japan Pharmacists Education Center has promoted "Training courses for certification in the use of Chinese herbal medicine and natural drugs," one of the center's continuing education program. Meiji Pharmaceutical Medicinal Plant Garden is among those cooperating gardens to accept trainees for practical observation of the course. View full university

Kyoto Pharmaceutical University was initially established as a private German school founded by young scholars trained by the German educator Rudolf Lehmann to teach Western medicine and pharmaceutics in the German language. The University is the second oldest private pharmacy school in Japan with a long history and tradition. We celebrated our 130th anniversary in 2014. As expressed in our motto "Philosophia et Praktikos," the University's founding principles are to be independent and self-reliant, commit to lifelong learning, and put the lessons into practice. Over the years, more than 22,000 graduates have pursued careers in the pharmaceutical industry, hospitals, pharmacies, universities, and government agencies, where they have been recognized for excellence. "Philosophia et Praktikos," a funding principle of the Kyoto Pharmaceutical University (KPU), is based on graduate education at KPU. Graduate education aims to increase the ability of and competence about becoming a leader in basic and clinical pharmaceutical sciences. For this goal, each graduate course program is shaped to facilitate the pursuit of original research in collaboration with laboratories at KPU and universities and research institutions abroad. Through these international research activities, the original and creative research ability, an essential requirement to be a leader in any field, including pharmaceutical sciences, is acquired. Ten years have passed since the historic reform in pharmacy education in 2006, in which six-year programs were implemented. During this period, the University established a six-year education program that integrates pre-pharmacy, basic pharmacy, and specialized pharmacy courses laboratory and practical course rotations in hospitals, pharmacies, and thesis research. The infrastructure supporting the program, such as the new education building, was also completed. The goal of our six-year program is to develop individuals well-versed in Science, Art, and Humanity, that is, Pharmacist-Scientist. Most of the previous four-year pharmacy education programs emphasized "substances" that are drugs. However, we recognize that advanced medical science and technology alone cannot provide high-quality healthcare with safety and comfort. Medical professionals must have empathy for their patients. With this in mind, the University aims to educate Pharmacist-Scientist with a strong sense of benevolence in addition to specialized knowledge and techniques in pharmacy. Until 2016, approximately 2,000 students have graduated from the six-year program. In addition to the abovementioned career choices, some graduates have chosen to work in the health-related food industry. Graduates actively participate in team-based healthcare, community-based healthcare, development of new drugs, and healthcare system reform. They are expected to make significant contributions to the advancement of healthcare and support systems to meet the new era's needs. As the six-year program was implemented, we also set up graduate education that complements the undergraduate pharmacy education. We have established a four-year graduate program that builds upon the six-year undergraduate program to develop future leaders (pharmacists with doctorate degrees) in medical practice, the pharmaceutical industry, and government administration. The program offers four tracks: the Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences track the Clinical Pharmacy track the Cancer Professionals track (in collaboration with medical universities) the Regulatory Science track (in collaboration with the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency) In this program, students are guided to pursue original research following the tradition at this University to advance interdisciplinary and translational research in collaboration with laboratories with distinct expertise and study at universities and research institutions abroad. Through these efforts, our new program will help develop leaders in the field of basic and clinical pharmaceutical sciences. We believe that the graduates from our program will contribute to the six-year pharmacy education system's success in the future. View full university

Kobe Pharmaceutical University has a long history, which celebrated the eightieth anniversary in 2012. Since the founding in 1932, the goal of our University has been to educate students who will be able to contribute to society, and we have produced a great many talented people who play active parts as pharmacists in hospitals, dispensing pharmacies, and drugstores as well as researchers, developers and medical representatives in pharmaceutical companies. Now it is necessary to enrich the education system. For that purpose, we have cooperated with Kobe University, other universities, and medical institutes nearby. And we have tried to train students who have enriched knowledge in pharmacy, scientific thinking abilities, consciousness to be medical men, warm hearts to understand patients, and cooperativeness to work with other stuff in medical teams. Life-long education is getting more important to follow the rapid progress in medical care. We have established a characteristic education system for it conducted by Kobe Pharmaceutical University Extension Center. As well as education, research activities are essential to the mission of universities. At our University, we have actively developed research projects on clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, tried to contribute to society by the products, and at the same time to produce talented people who can be active in a broad field related to pharmacy. Pharmaceutical science is an area of study that explores and elucidates the physical properties of chemicals such as medicines and food that are deeply related to maintaining life and health and methods for their analysis and manufacture, their physiological effects, and their usage. As new drugs are being actively developed in recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on issues such as their side effects and drug-induced diseases and suffering. In this light, this University is conducting pharmaceutical education based on educational policies in place since our school foundation, that is, pursuing academic learning and improving one's character under the direction of our faculty who have outstanding teaching skills and who are passionate about pharmaceutical sciences. For pharmacists and other professionals who are engaged in work vital to life, a broad range of knowledge is demanded of them, and strict ethical standards and a rich and varied sense of what it means to be human are required. This University is intensely pursuing R&D on great new drugs with the highest degree of safety. Furthermore besides, we have been sending forth to medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies personnel who feel inspired to contribute to society. We are all working with serious intent on study and research to keep and improve people's lives and health everywhere. View full university

Gifu Pharmaceutical University (GPU) is a Japanese public university located in Gifu and supported by the Gifu City government. The predecessor of GPU Pharmacy School was founded in 1932 and established as a university in 1948. There have been considerable efforts made over the past 80 years to achieve excellence in university research and education. GPU offered a Master’s degree program for the first time in 1953, followed by a Doctoral program in 1965. GPU consists of two departments, Department of Pharmacy with a six-year undergraduate course and Department of Pharmaceutical Science with a four-year undergraduate course. Department of Pharmacy offers hands-on training for future pharmacists to work with doctors and nurses. At the same time, the Department of Pharmaceutical Science produces highly-trained researchers and medical professionals. With the establishment of our new headquarter in 2011, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) and GPU inaugurated the first joint graduate school providing higher quality learning environments and postgraduate education. The graduate school aims to produce medical professionals in the field of medicines, medical services, and medical devices. GPU is ranked among the best colleges of pharmacy in the nation. Our motto is, “Strong, Fair, and Bright,” contributing to humanity. GPU has been educating its students in order to be able to contribute to social health and welfare based on the concepts of Green Pharmacy and the environmentally friendly design of chemical products and processes. With a pool of talented professors, GPU produced more than 11.000 quality pharmacists, researchers, and developers who joined the workforce at pharmaceutical companies, medical and environmental institutions in Japan and overseas. Besides, GPU is characterized by highly qualified teachers, high-quality research, and bright students. Our faculty members have developed a cutting-edge curriculum, which, when coupled with life-long learning, will provide our graduates with the requisite professional foundation to practice the profession of pharmacy at a too high level for many decades to come. In the Department of Pharmacy, we strive to develop students who have the skills, knowledge, and professionalism regarding the dosage, dispensing, and patient care under clinical pharmacy practices. We stress a humanistic approach based on high ethical standards. Some students also work as civil servants in public health, private companies, and industries that focus on pharmaceutical research. Through an extended six-year curriculum, students acquire standard skill sets and move on to the acquisition of more advanced skills through internships at our pharmacy, retail pharmacies, and those located in hospitals. Especially, GPU has established more profound relationships with Pharmaceutical University of China and Zhejiang University by exchanging faculty members or students. We also established overseas scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students to study abroad using the foundation donated by an alumnus, Mr. Hajime Murayama, in 2013. By these scholarships, students have been sent to the University of Florida and developed a cultural understanding. View full university

China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), situated in Nanjing's historical and cultural city, is one of the "211 projects" key universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China. Its long history and its leadership role in China's pharmaceutical, academic fields have been known. The University was founded in 1936 as China's first independent four-year National College of Pharmacy and the first public institution for higher pharmaceutical education in China. By the end of the Year 2015, CPU hosts more than 15000 full-time students, of which about 12000 are bachelor's or associate degree candidates, over 3600 are postgraduates. Its faculty includes 910 full-time teachers. There are two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one academician of the German Academy of Sciences, four supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, 6 "Yangtze River Scholars," 2 supported by "Thousand Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, three supported by "Ten-Thousand Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The University is composed of two campuses, namely the Xuanwumen Campus and the Jiangning Campus, which cover a total area of about 2200 mu (146.6 hectares). CPU adheres to the concept of academic first, teacher and student-oriented, win-win concept, implements the educational model of integrating knowledge, ability, and quality, highlights cultivation of students' creative thinking, and is committed to creating future pharmacy elites.CPU is the only one that has won the First Prize of National Teaching Achievements consecutively three times. In the Year 2014, CPU recommended three projects for the Teaching Achievement Award at the national level, all of which won the second prize, excluding any other pharmaceutical education institution. The graduate employment rate has always ranked top among MOE-affiliated universities and local colleges in Jiangsu Province. In the Year 2014, the undergraduate employment rate ranked top 1 among universities directly subordinated to the Ministry of Education. The University promotes innovation in research and aims to develop novel medicines for public health. It has founded 18 pivotal labs, including The State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and pivotal labs at provincial or ministerial levels, technical engineering centers, innovative platforms. The University has established academic collaboration with overseas universities and institutions in over 40 countries and regions. During 2011-2015 the University has undertaken 26 major projects for the nation's Innovative New Drug projects and was endowed with 178 million Yuan funding, being No.1 among all universities nationwide. Our researchers won two 2nd Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. 2 new drugs were nationally certified. Six new drugs were approved for clinical research, and 410 patents were attained, and 3919 SCI-indexed articles were published. We have made new progress in the joint postgraduate cultivation and international exchange and cooperation. In the "11th Five-Year-Plan" period, the number of postgraduates cultivated jointly between our University and other domestic and overseas universities, research institutes, and pharmaceutical enterprises showed a noticeable rising trend. Since 2008, our University has been carrying out the project of dispatching postgraduates to study abroad with the Chinese government's financial support. We have successively dispatched 64 doctoral degree candidates for overseas joint cultivation and 49 students to study for doctoral degrees overseas. In 2008, our University and the University of Calabria of Italy jointly launched postgraduate joint cultivation and international exchange project. So far, 20 students have been dispatched to Italy for exchange and learning. In 2010, we were granted the qualification of independent recruitment of students based on the Chinese government's scholarship. Since the 1950s, our University has brought up many academic-degree students and non-degree students for more than 60 countries worldwide, many of whom have played an essential part in politics, economy, education, and scientific research own countries. View full university